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Aware Super appoints UK private equity lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... globally. As for Robertson, she has over a decade of pan-European real estate investment experience, with a strong track record in sourcing, structuring and managing complex, high-value transactions across the residential, hospitality and alternative ...

BlackRock takes stake in Generation Life parent company

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... Generation Life said. GDP has also recently entered the ASX 200, which was announce in a quarterly update that reported record inflows across its managed accounts and investment bonds businesses. BlackRock's head of Australasia Jason Collins said ...

The top-performing (and worst) asset classes of the past year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Mercer's annual periodic table, which charts 17 major asset classes investment returns on an annual basis over the last decade, reveals that there's few reliable themes, except that greater risk tends to be rewarded by greater return. Equity ...

Franklin Templeton brings Lexington Partners PE fund down under

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
The investment manager has launched the Franklin Lexington Private Equity Secondaries Fund, offering Australian investors access to a diversified private equity portfolio focused on the secondaries market. The new offering invests into an Australian ...

Licensees slash compliance spending: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... an assumption that conflicts of interest are to be expected and managed. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence (AI)-related record-keeping questions are top of mind for licensees. The survey found an upward trend in the use of AI to draft meeting minutes. ...

Sequoia appoints licensee, adviser services lead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... Partnerships, where he led the integration of more than 400 advisers during the NAB divestment. "Daryl has a proven track record in adviser engagement, licensee operations, practice development, and M&A support," Sequoia said. "His extensive industry ...

Australia tops list for financial services job growth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
Australia recorded a significant upswing in professional job vacancies, led by the financial services sector in March, according to the Robert Walters Global Jobs Index. The research found that professional white-collar vacancies in financial services ...

Platinum to lose $1bn mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
Platinum Investment Management is set to lose a sizeable institutional mandate at the end of the week. The ASX-listed manager disclosed it received notice overnight that an institutional mandate worth about $958 million is to be terminated. The termination ...

Life insurance premiums edge lower

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
Annual premiums from active life insurance policies fell 1.7% to $16.2 billion in the year to December 2024 - a $300 million decline from the previous year - according to DEXX&R. The market research firm's latest Life Analysis report showed total new ...

Future Fund muscles past annual target return, lags in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... noted that investment gains over the past year had added $17.8 billion to the Future Fund, lifting its total value to a record $240.8 billion. Global equities comprise the largest proportion of the Future Fund's asset allocation, totalling $80 billion ...